XF 1.2 Watching a Forum

XenForo 1.2 adds another commonly requested feature: the ability to watch a forum. The forum watching system works rather similarly to the thread watching system, just on all content within a forum.

When you click the link to watch a forum, you'll see an overlay like this:

Notification-less watching options may be expanded in the future (such as with indications on the new threads list).

Notifications work identically to thread watching notifications: you'll only receive one about a thread until you view it on the forum.

Like threads, you can manage your watched forums in bulk via a dedicated page. This can also be used to simply filter only to forums you're interested in.

Administrators can also limit the type of notifications that can be triggered when watching a forum:

This can be useful to reduce the number of notifications that will be triggered on particularly busy forums.

 

[CTXMedia]

Is it possible to disable the 'email' option for notifications in this new feature? (Sorry, haven't got the beta installed as yet )

Actually, can the whole feature be turned off if required?

 

[Mike]

No, though you can limit what can be selected to receive notifications for (such as new threads only).

 

[CTXMedia]

No, though you can limit what can be selected to receive notifications for (such as new threads only).

Okay, thanks - just thinking about the volume of outgoing email from my server once people start using it ...

 

[The Grand Potentate]

I dig the new glasses icon

 

[Wulfspider]

For those wanting to convert old alerts from the [bd] Forum Watch addon, these MySQL queries should do the trick:

update xf_user_alert set action = replace(action, 'forumwatch_reply', 'insert');
update xf_user_alert set action = replace(action, 'forumwatch_thread', 'insert');

 

[HannahP]

This is a good addition, but it would still be nice to be able to specify an email address to send notifications to on a node level rather than the user level.

 

[Tuaibk]

good features

 

[daudet]

I just upgraded to version 1.2. Prior to 1.2 I used BD Forum Watch so that users could get all posts on a subject, instead of only for the first message on a thread. Is there any way to set this up with this new feature?

--Dan